National Food Security Bill

                                        

Latest Appeared Views on the Food Security Ordinance(8 July to 15 July)

Robust TN model food for Sonia's thought(Shyam Balasubramania, The New Indian Express,15 July)

Five questions govt needs to answer on food security(Vivek Kaul,First Post,15 July)

‘Food security is good, but what about food safety?’(The Times of India,15 July)

Bihar, UP to get maximum benefit from Food Security ordinance(Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Business Standard,15 July)

Very hard to stomach(A Didar Singh,Hindustan Times,15 July)

India's food security bill: an inadequate remedy?(Ravi Jha,The Guardian,15 July)

Food security: Only two Congress states ready(Iftikhar Gilani,DNA,14 July)

Rs 25,000 fine for refusing info, only Rs. 5,000 for denying food(Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times,14 July)

An illusion of food security (Sidharth Birla,Business LIne,14 July)

Congress-ruled states to launch food security scheme Aug 20 (Business Standard,13 July)

The right to ration cards(Sreelatha Menon,Business Standard,13 July)

Food for vote(Soni MIshra,The Week,12 July)

Exclusion as policy(T K Rajalakshmi,Frontline,12 July)

Food Security Ordinance: Constitutional Impropriety?(Money Control,13 July)

Over 75% of readers have said the Bill is politically-motivated(The Hindu,12 July)

Food Bill — not what the stomach ordered(Charan  Singh,Business LIne,11 July)

The modest food security Bill(Jean Dreze,Business Standard,10 July)

The Food Security Debate in India(Jean Dreze,New York Times,9 July)

Food Security Bill a game-changer?(N C Saxena,Business Standard,8 July)

Editorial and  articles on the  Food Security Ordinance

Short-circuiting debate(Editorial,Business Standard, 7 July)

Food for politics(Editorial,The Hindu,6 July)

Food security bill has a sting in the tail for Maharashtra(Yogesh Pawar,DNA,7 July)

Food ordinance has controversial force majeure clause(Sanjeeb Mukherjee ,Business Standard, 7 July)

No food security in the time of disaster(Iftikhar Gilani,DNA,6 July)

Right to Food Ordinance: Every Grain has Vote Written on It(Udit Misra,Forbes India,5 July)

How will government make right to food a reality?(Ragini Verma,DNA,4 July)

Poverty, Undernutrition and Food Security in Contemporary India (Deepankar Basu,Sanhati,4 July)

Food Security Bill can set off a consumption boom(Vidya Mahambre & Neha Duggar,DNA,4 July)

Food security programme: Will the states really benefit?(Sanjiv Shankaran,Business Today,4 July)

The First Post debate on the Food Security Ordinance

Ordinance or special session?

Although government has deferred the move to bring ordinance, from media report it seems that the option is still open

You can see  press release by the campaign on the issue of ordinance

You can  see  NDTV debate  No consensus on Food Bill on this issue.

Find below some more news and articles on the issue of ordinance on the bill.

• Food Security Bill: GoM to reach out to Opposition on special session (Smita Gupta,The HIndu,15 June)
• Dear MPs, please debate the Food Security Bill( G Pramod Kumar,First Post,14 June)
• BJP favours amended food security bill in monsoon session of Parliament(India Today,13 June)
• Govt plans to convene special Parliament session to pass Food Bill(vishwanath Kulakarni,Business Line,13 June)
• Food Security Bill: Govt opting for ordinance route(The Statesman, 12 June)
• Food Bill: Pawar for Parliament debate(N Ganesh, The New Indian Express,8 June)

Some useful documents and relevant links regarding bill

Summery of National Food Security Bill 2013

Relevant Links

Bill Text  (771 KB)   PRS Legislative Brief  (203 KB)   PRS Bill Summary  (357 KB)   Standing Committee Report  (1320 KB)   NAC Bill  (1235 KB)   Report Summary - Rangarajan Report on Food Security  (263 KB)   Report of the Expert Committee on National Food Security Bill  (365 KB)   Justice Wadhwa Committee Report on PDS  (305 KB)   Report of the Expert Group (NC Saxena) on the methodology for the BPL Census 2009  (2 MB)   Chapter 2 -- Economic Survey 2011-2012 PDS  (615 KB)   CACP Report on Food Security Bill  (1 MB)  A comparison of the Standing Committee recommendations and the National Food Security Bill  (76 KB)   Report Summary - CACP Report on the National Food Security Bill  (115 KB)

News and Articles

• Lessons from Brazil’s Zero Hunger(Anurodh Lalit,The HIndu,16 June)  
• Why the Food Security Bill is neither populist nor unaffordable(Ashok Kotwal,The Economic Times,14 June)  
• Right to food or drinking water?(Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Live Mint,14 June)  
• Food Security Bill: What will it mean for Mumbai's hungry and homeless?(Miloni Bhatt,NDTV,13 June)
•  Food security: How the states feed India(The Indian Express, 13 June)
• Stunting a country(The Hindu,13 June)

• Securing Food for All: Is it Really Difficult to Afford? (Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya, Economic and Political Weekly, 26 January 2013)
• Food Security Bill deserves to be shelved (Rajiv Kumar, Mail Today, 25 January 2013)
• The cost of food security (C P Chandrashekhar, The Hindu, 20 January 2013)
• A bill on the table (Annie Zaidi, DNA, 20 January 2013)
• Can the govt's ambitious food bill remove hunger? (NDTV, 12 January 2013)
• Food Security Act: Should Centre emulate Chhattisgarh? - YES (Reetika Khera, Business Line, 28 December 2012)
• Food Security Act: Should Centre emulate Chhattisgarh? - NO (M R Subramani, Business Line, 28 December 2012)
• Food Bill forgotten (J. George, Business Line, 21 November 2012)
• The Big Letdown of the Food Security Bill (Ashwin Parulkar, The Wall Street Journal, India Real Time, 18 October 2012)
• Food security, Plan Z (Jean Dreze, Hindustan Times, 22 August 2012)
• A Note on the Some Entitlements of Women and Young Children in the Draft Food Security Bill from Gender Perspective (Mina Swaminathan)
• Ending Hunger, A symposium on the proposed national food security bill (June 2012, Seminar - The monthly symposium)
• Need for a Different Food Security Law (Suman Sahai)
• Food from the Courts (Harsh Mander)
• Poverty, Targeting and Food Security (Jean Drèze)
• One Step Forward, One Step Back? (Reetika Khera)
• Grow Food in Abundance (Bhavdeep Kang)
• Why not Food Security? (Alok Sinha)
• Need for New Thinking (Alok Shukla)
• Food Subsidy Bill: The Larger Picture (Rajiv Kumar)
• Beyond Numbers (Amitabh Mukhopadhya)
• Designing Appropriate Systems (Yoginder K. Alagh)
• In the name of food security (Sukhdeep Kaur,Indian Express, 11 May 2012)
• An Act to feed 120 crore people (D.S. Rawat, Tehelka, 27 March 2012)
• The Food's Off The Table (Harsh Mander, Outlook India Magazine, 26 March 2012
• The price of food security (Amitabh Mukhopadhyaya, India Today, 24 March 2012)
• A bound-to-fail positive effort (Anand Panini, Tehelka, 20 March 2012)
• Food Security Bill Looking Wobbly (Geeta Anand, Wall Street Journal, 16 March 2012)
• A simple proposal on food security (Open letter to PM Manmohan Singh, The Hindu, 12 March 2012)
• Are Men Useless? (Government Says Yes) (Malavika Vyawahare, The New York Times, 9 March 2012)
• It simply can't fail (Abhijit V Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Ashok Kotwal, Milind Murugkar and Bharat Ramaswami, Hindustan Times, 28 Feb 2012)
• Food security doesn't mean only security of foodgrains (C Shivkumar, Financial Chronicle, 12 Feb 2012)
• Separate the grain and the chaff (Milind Murugkar, The Indian Express, 11 Feb 2012)
• Food for all, but not through dole (Uttam Gupta, Business Line, 10 February 2012)
• To Feed a Billion Mouths (Himanshu, Forbes - India, 30 Jan 2012)
• Will India's poor remain hungry? (Stan Cox, Aljazeera, 26 January 2012)
• Will the Food Security Bill Fight Hunger? (Malavika Vyawahare, New York Times, 2 January 2012)
• Food Security Bill: Making sense of the numbers (Sachin Kumar Jain, Infochange News & Features, January 2012)
• Food Security Bill: Simpler the Better (Editorials, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 December 2011)
• Decentralised Procurement and Universalised PDS (Kaustav Banerjee, Economic and Political Weekly, 24 December 2011)
• Hunger must go (Jean Dreze, Hindustan Times, 22 December 2011)
• Improve PDS, fight hunger (Shafeeq Rahman, Tehelka, 22 December 2011)
• Can we afford Rs 6 lakh cr Food Subsidy Bill in 3 years? (Ashok Gulati and Jyoti Gujral, The Economic Times, 17 December 2011)
• A collective liability (Harsh Mander, Hindustan Times, 28 November 2011)
• Food Security Bill: Is it well thought out? (Suman Sahai, Deccan Chronicle, 24 October 2011)
• Food for all? (Sebastian PT, Outlook Business, 12 Nov 2011)
• Food Bill must have strong safeguards for cash transfer: Jean Dreze (The Hindu, 2 October 2011)
• To the hungry, god is bread (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 1 October 2011) 
• The middle path on the food security bill? (Harsh Mander, Infochange Agriculture, 8 September 2011)
• Starving India may get the Bill but not the food (Apoorva Dutt, DNA, 4 September 2011)
• Right to Food, a critique of the draft food security bill, and a brief outline of what any such bill must, at the very least, incorporate (Commentary, Economic and Political Weekly, 13 August 2011)
• Lip Service to Food Security (Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 July 2011)
• Ending Indifference: A Law to Exile Hunger? (Harsh Mander, Economic and Political Weekly, June 18 2011, Volume 46 Issue 25)
• Impact of Biometric Identification-Based Transfers (Arka Roy Chaudhuri, E Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 21)
• Mending the Food Security Act (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 24 May 2011)
• Why not a Universal Food Security Legislation (Himanshu and Abhijit Sen, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, Issue 12)
• Make food security a right (Simi Chacko and Ria Singh Sawhney, The Hindu Magazine, 5 March 2011)
• Going against the grain (Reetika Khera, Hindustan Times, 26 January 2011)
• Where Are the Cereals? (Editorials, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46 Issue 4)
• A platter of blather (Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express, 21 January 2011)
• Don't water down food security (Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Express, 19 January 2011)
• A flawed approach to food security (Himanshu, Live Mint, 19 January 2011)
• A Notional Advisory Council? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 10 January 2011)
• Is the food security programme workable? (Biraj Patnaik, Business Standard, 3 November 2010)
• POSCO Deewane (Neelabh Mishra, Outlook, 8 November 2010)
• The Middle Class has lost track of how poor this country is (Jean Drèze, Tehelka, 6 November 2010)
• A Single Solution (The Hindu, 25 October 2010)
• Poor get less food from Sonia's NAC (The Times of India, 24 OCtober 2010)
• NAC urges cheap grain for 75% Population (Business Standard, 24 October 2010)
• Divided NAC finalises Food Security Draft (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 24 October 2010)
• No Uniform Food Security, NAC readies Bill framework (Ravish Tiwari, Indian Express, 24 October 2010)
• NAC moots food net for 75% of population (Sreejiraj Eluvangal & Anil Sharma, Daily News and Analysis, 24 October 2010)
• Implement Food Security Scheme in two phases: NAC (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 24 October 2010)
• NAC-govt divide surfaces at think tank's meet (Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 October 2010)
• NAC consensus on Food Security (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 24 October 2010)
• Inconsistencies in Food Safety Law (Samay, 23 October 2010)
• Food Security for 'almost' all (Vibha Sharma, The Tribune, 23 October 2010)
• NAC's compromise proposes wider food security coverage (Smita Gupta, Hindu, 23 October 2010)
• NAC wants subsidised food for 75 percent of Indians (Rupashree Nanda, IBN, 23 October 2010)
• Food Bill re-draft:Subsidies for 75 percent (NDTV, 23 October 2010)
• Jean Drèze's Dissent Note (Hindu, 22 October 2010)
• Losing their nerve? (Jean Drèze, Hindustan Times, 14 October 2010)
• Ministry rejects NAC's Food Security Proposal (Hindustan Times, 4 October 2010)
• Radical changes proposed to Food Security Bill
• NAC wants subsidised food for 75% Indians (M. Rajashekhar & Urmi A Goswami, Economic Times, 24 October 2010)
• How right you are, Dr. Singh (P. Sainath, Hindu, 14 September 2010)
• The early Kalidasa syndrome (Utsa Patnaik, Hindu, 13 September 2010)
• More food grains for poor at BPL rates (Gargi Parsai, Hindu, 2 September 2010)
• Food Security - by definition (P. Sainath, Hindu, 26 August 2010)
• Oliver Twist seeks food security (P. Sainath, Hindu, 11 August 2010)
• Hungry for more (Ritu Priya, Hindustan Times, 8 August 2010)
• Plan Panel to give food security cost proposals to EGoM (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 22 April 2010)
• Work out a Bankable Plan (Devinder Sharma, Hindustan Times, 22 April 2010)
• PM seeks details of objections to food security Bill (Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times, 19 April 2010)
• 3-page note changed Govt tack on food bill (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 7 April 2010)
• Will food bill help these children? (Kenneth John and Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 4 April 2010)
• Hard to Stomach (Biraj Patnaik, Hindustan Times, 4 April 2010)
• Govt to send food security bill back to rewrite desk (Zia Haq, Hindustan Times, 3 April 2010)
• Draft food bill belies lofty UPA promise (Anil Padmanabhan & Liz Mathew, Hindustan Times, 2 April 2010)
• Of Food Inflation, Farmer Interest and Policy Failure (Himanshu, Mint, 1 April 2010)
• India's Mountains of Shame (Zia Haq, Hindustan Times, 30 March 2010)
• India's Safety nets collapse in Balangir (Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times, 29 March 2010)
• The menu is still a la carte (Hindustan Times, 23 March 2010)
• Bill may offer far less than what poor need (Samar Halarnkar and Gaurav Choudhury, Hindustan Times, 23 March 2010)
• Pathway to Food Security for all (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 29 March 2010)
• The Wretched of the Earth (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 19 December 2009)
• The Poverty estimates debate (Biraj Patnaik, livemint.com, 13 December 2009)
• Rallying against Hunger (Chandni Mehta, The Hindu, 6 December 2009)
• Food Insecurity in Incredible India (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Infochange India News & Features, September 2009)
• Fishing for the Food Safety Net (Biraj Patnaik, The Financial Express, 30 August 2009)
• Legislating against Hunger (Zoya Hasan, The Hindu, 27 August 2009)
• Drought of Policymaking vision (Biraj Patnaik, livemint.com, 19 August 2009)
• Whose Right is it anyway? (Ashwini Kulkarni, Indian Express, 15 August 2009)
• Food for All (Jayati Ghosh, Frontline, Volume 26, Issue 17 August 15-28 2009)
• Holding the State accountable for Hunger (Surabh Chopra, Economic and Political Weekly, 15 August 2009 )
• The Food Economy: How will the government reach food to the target families? (Bhaskar Dutta, The Telegraph, 30 July 2009)
• Right to Food Act: Essential but Inadequate (Rahul Lahoti and Sanjay G. Reddy, The Hindu, 28 July 2009)
• Cheaper grain's only one part of a Food Security Act (Himanshu, Live Mint, 24 July 2009)
• India: Make Hunger History (Devinder Sharma, atlanticfreepress.com, 22 July 2009)
• A Grain of Good Sense (Jean Drèze, The Outlook, 20 July 2009)
• Right to Food Act: Beyond Cheap Promises (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 18 July 2009)
• Exiling Hunger from Every Home (Harsh Mander, The Hindu, 5 July 2009)
• How to tackle India's Hunger (Biraj Patnaik, Live Mint, 2 July 2009)
• For Inclusive Approach to Food Security (Brinda Karat, The Hindu, 30 June 2009)
• Food Security Act (Researchers of IFMR, India Development Blog, 30 Jun 2009)
• Synergy between Food Security Act and NREGA (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 01 Jun 2009)